Modge Podge is my Best Friend

We have finally unpacked enough that I'm to the point I can start crafting again.  It has been like two and a half months!  Do you remember these letters I made for Lucas's nursery?

Well, since Lucas is growing up and out of his crib, I decided his room needed a make over with more boyish stuff - less baby stuff.  I was debating if I should save his letters in a box somewhere to remember how they were for his nursery forever and ever, or if I should re-cover them with some different paper to go with his new room colors.  Apparently Lucas decided for me.  He got a hold of the letters and tore the paper off, and broke one of them in the process.

 No big deal, I just glued the "S" back together, and then I made my first craft in our new home.  When I first did these I didn't show you how, so I decided to take pictures this time around.  It is SUPER easy.

You need to go buy some letters from the store, pick out a cute paper to use, or a variety of paper like I did the first time, and the last item you will need is modge podge or some other decoupage medium.  Trace the letters on the back of your paper, be sure to place your letters backwards so that when you cut out the paper the pattern side will be facing out.

 Next, take the modge podge and glue the paper to the letter.  I actually used photo sticks the first time I did this, and you could probably even use double sided tape if you wanted.

 And now you have cute letters to put anywhere you want.  Stay tuned for more pictures of Lucas's room when I actually get around to finishing everything.

The next craft I did also included modge podge.  It's one that has been very popular on the internet for a while, but I'm just now getting around to trying.  I made my own coasters.  Our cups get a lot of condensation on them now that we don't live in the desert anymore, so we decided we needed coasters.

And my last craft I worked on this week does not use modge podge, but it does use my favorite of my crafting supplies, my silhouette!  We had a big empty wall that I wanted to hang one of our pictures on, but the picture that once was huge in our small apartment, appeared to have shrunk down to a 5x7 during the move and looked tiny on our wall.  So I had to create a photo grouping, and had to get new pictures and frames to go in the grouping.  I wanted one with our name for the top, so I just decided to whip one up with my silhouette.  I know it's not quite as fancy as some of the other ones I've seen, but it was basically free, so you can't beat that.

I have a whole list of crafts and decorating that I need to get done, so I'll continue posting as I get to them.  Next up will probably be curtains for Lucas's room.  Hopefully I will also have everything else done for the room so I can show pictures of the whole room.  It's looking pretty cute in my head, I just hope it looks good in real life.